Curtain-support.



F. LA 0.. LATHROP.

CURTAIN SUPPORT. APPLICATION FILED DEG. 31, 1913.

Patented May 5, 1914.

8 mm wto'c 771F611 wi bne weo i an STATES PATENT FRANK LA OTIS LAT'I-IROP, OF WALLING-FORD, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR T0 H. I4. JUDD COMPANY, OF WALLINGFOBD, CONNECTICUT, A CORPORATION OF NEW YORK.

CURTAIN-SUFPORT.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 5, 1914.

Application filed December 31, 191-3. Serial No. 809,606.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, FRANK LA OTIS LA- THROP, a citizen of the United States, residing at \Vallingford, New Haven county, State of Connecticut, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Curtain-Supports, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention relates to improved construction in supports for curtains, portieres, and other hangings, the object being more particularly to provide a simple, eflicient and inexpensive structure of the so-called traverse ring type.

The present invention relates more particularly to the type of traverse ring shown in the patent to Edsall No. 996,227 of June 27, 1911. The present invention provides a support of this general type which may be applied to the pole without taking the latter from its sockets.

The invention also provides certain features of construction productive of advantageous results and more particularly referred to in the detailed specification following. In the accompanying drawings, the figure shown is a view in side elevation of the support of the present invention mounted upon a traverse rod, the latter being shown in section.

Referring to the drawings by numerals, l designates the upper part of a door casing, for instance, and 2 the traverse bar or curtain pole upon which the device of the present invention may be mounted. This device in its preferable form, comprises a bar, preferably shaped from a single strip of sheet metal, to provide an overhead spanning member 3 having vertically disposed and downwardly extending side arms 3, these arms being provided with an oblique bend therein, and one of these arms only having an integral downward extension 4, the extremity of which is bent inwardly and positioned approximately below the center of the spanning portion 3, the end being bent substantially vertically as at 4*. This provides an open ring effect giving a space between the lower end of the short arm 3 and the lower extremity 41 of the long arm more than suflicient to receive a traverse rod, so that the supporting frame formed by the members 3-4, may be slipped transversely over the traverse rod and from either side thereof. The provision of the oblique bend in the long downward extending arm of the frame provides a bend therein, and as the frame is formed of strip sheet metal, and as the long arm carries the weight of the curtain, and takes the supporting strain, it is desirable to reinforce this arm. To this end a truss bar 5 is secured to the long arm of the frame and spans the bend therein, this bar giving rigidity to the frame and being riveted thereto adjacent its upper and lower ends as at 5 hollow tubular rivets preferably being employed so that a curtain may be sewed or otherwise secured to this long arm of the hanger frame. The upper end of this truss extends above the member 3 to form a top support for the curtain.

I preferably provide an anti-friction bearing for the frame 8-4 on the traverse bar 2. A bridging bar 8 extends transversely of the frame below the member3 thereof and above the oblique portions of said frame, this bar being preferably of arcuate form and its ends being bent downwardly and rigidly connected with the oblique portions of the vertical parts 3* of the frame. Antifriction rollers 910 are journaled on thebridging bar preferably at points equi-distant from the center thereof and engage with the periphery of the traverse bar 2. These rollers are spaced from the ends of the bar 8 and from the oblique portions of the frame by bushings 1111, and are held spaced apart to the proper degree by stop shoulders 12-12. The length of the short vertical arm of the frame is immaterial. t may terminate at the point shown in the drawings or may terminate at the end of the inwardly and downwardly extending oblique portion in which the end of the bridging bar 8 is held, the main point being to provide a sufli cient clearance between the ends of the long and short arms of the frame for the reception of the traverse bar.

The spanning member 3 of the frame may be provided, preferably centrally thereof, with an eye 6 and the upper end of the truss bar 5 may be provided with an aperture 7, so that the upper end of the draperies may be secured to the frame and truss bar at these points, and conceal the frame from view. As the lower end of the frame will be positioned substantially at the center of gravity of the frame and substantially beneath the center of the traverse bar, and as the long arm of the frame is made rigid by the truss bar 5, it is evident that the antifriction rollers will tend to assume a central position on the traverse bar, the load strain being in a line centrally of the frame and of the bar, because of the relative position of the lower end of the frame.

The construction described forms a light, simple and durable device of the character set forth, possessing the advantage of low manufacturing cost with the added advantage of facility in mounting.

I have shown a specific form of my invention loiit it will be understood that this einbodiment is susceptible of variation both in structure and relative arrangement of parts within the spirit of the invention and the scope of the appended claims.

What I claim, therefore, and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

1. In a device of the character described, a frame comprising a transverse spanning arm and a vertical arm depending from one extremity thereof, said arm having its tremity positioned beneath said transverse arm and below and spaced vertically from the opposite extremity of said arm, and bearing means carried by said transverse arm and arranged to engage a traverse rod.

:2. In a device of the character described, a frame embodying a transverse spanning bar having downwardly inclined ends and an integral vertical bar dependiilg from one end only of said transverse bar, the extremity of said vertical bar being positioned beneath said transverse bar at a point intermediate its ends and spaced vertically from the opposite extremity of the transverse bar, anti frictijon bearing means carried by the downwardly extending ends of said transverse bar and arranged to engage a traverse bar to support the frame therefrom.

3. In a device of the character described, a frame comprising a transverse spanning bar having downwardly extending extremities, anti 2 friction bearing members supported by said ends, a vertical bar depend ing from one extremity only of said transverse bar and provided with a bend therein to position the lower end of said bar beneath said transverse bar at a point intermediate its extremities and spaced vertically from its opposite extremity, and a truss member connecting said vertical bar with the extremity of said transverse bar and spanning the bend in said vertical bar to provide a rigid support; I

4. In a device of the character described, a frame embodying a transverse metal. bar having its opposite extremities bent downwardly and inwardly, one of said extremities only being provided with an integral vertically depending bar having a bend therein to position its lower end beneath said transverse bar and at a point vertically spaced from the opposite extremity of said bar and in a line substantially at the center of gravity of the frame, a truss bar fixed to said dmvmmrd extremity and said vertical arm and spanning the bend in said arm, a supporting spindle journaled in said downwardly and inwardly inclined extremities of said transverse bar, and anti-friction members journaled on said spindle and designed to engage a traverse bar to support the frame therefrom.

FRANK LA OTIS LATHROP. lVitnesses RAYMOND H. Gorr, R. FLEMING STUART.

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